Altcoins - a new category of applications

Here, I present a new level of hierarchy on Nixpkgs: the Altcoins.

The idea is to put a single cryptocurrency per file, and build them
using expressions like altcoins.bitcoin. I believe this ordering is
clearer and more maintainable that the current one.

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/applications/altcoins/namecoind.nix b/pkgs/applications/altcoins/namecoind.nix
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+{ stdenv, fetchurl, db4, boost, openssl, miniupnpc, unzip }:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "0.3.76";
+  name = "namecoind-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin/archive/nc${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "007372j47hb7p89smh3w0p6z70gii9gd4v6agpycqiv4r3n9sv5v";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ db4 boost openssl unzip miniupnpc ];
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -e 's/-Wl,-Bstatic//g' -e 's/-l gthread-2.0//g' -e 's/-l z//g' -i src/Makefile
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    make -C src INCLUDEPATHS= LIBPATHS=
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    cp src/namecoind $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Decentralized open source information registration and transfer system based on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency";
+    homepage = http://namecoin.info;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ doublec AndersonTorres ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}